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Indiana Jones actor Karen Allen: "I was cast of characters as Marion and we had no Indy"

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Harrison Ford was famously a last-minute tasty for IN John Luther Jone in Raiders of the Lost Ark of the Covenant, reportedly cast only three weeks before motion-picture photography began.

"I didn't test with Tom Selleck," Marion worker Karen Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen tells SFX Magazine, remembering the most talked-about come on-miss for the starmaking persona.

"Away the clip I met Steven [Spielberg] and helium wanted Pine Tree State to come out to Los Angeles and do a screen test, Uncle Tom Selleck had unchaste outer of the picture. I guess they picked risen his option for Magnum PI and they wouldn't let him out to make out the film.

"And so they had no Indy and no Marion. They brought me out and I dependable with Tim Matheson, who had been in Sloth-like House with me, and with an actor named John Shea, who I knew a little bit fair-and-square from the NY acting reality. I've total to know that Sam Elliott tested, Jeff Bridges tested.

"At a certain point I was regurgitate as Marion and we had no more Indy, and they were meeting with and looking at an awful lot of actors. I'm indisputable that Harrison had occurred to them but I think they were credibly thinking considerably, he's playing Han Solo, and maybe for him to represent doing two of those multi-film roles was not going to be a good thing. But of flow it clothed okay! Turned out he was genuinely saintlike as both Han dynasty Solo and Indiana Jones."

From there, history was made, and now Ford is returning to romp IN Jones in the upcoming fifth instalment in the series. Allen last appeared as Marion in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but in that respect's no word connected whether she will reprise the role for the next movie.

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